What Can we Learn?Mapping the activities

onto literacy and learning frameworks

• 21st Century Skills :: Arg Activities

• Mapping Sample activities to literacy skills

• ARG activities :: Content Area Standards

• ARG activities :: AASL Standards for 21st Century Learner

21st Century Literacies• Gather: finding, accessing, & evaluating• Make sense: analyzing, synthesizing, &

reflecting• Solve: problem solving, experimenting, &

innovating• Create: creating, remixing, & modifying• Manage: managing, organizing, & preserving• Respect: acting ethically, respectfully, and

legally• Collaborate: collaborating & communicating

Educational componentsLearning activities

• Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry document

• Design Patent Search Exercise• Morse Code clues• “New” patent Model creation

Learning OutcomesTransmedia literacy skills applied

Gallery of Gadgetry document

(Design) Patent Search

Morse Code clues

“New” Patent Model

Make Sense: analyzing, synthesizing, reflecting X X XGather: finding, accessing, evaluating X XSolve: problem-solving, experimenting, innovating X X

Manage: managing, organizing, preserving X XCreate: creating, remixing, modifying XCollaborate: collaborating and communicating X X X X

Analyzing the Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry document (Patent Office History)

NCTE: “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate texts. . . . They draw upon other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).”

depositary, n. a person with whom anything is lodged in trust…one to whom anything is committed or confided.

arcane, a. hidden, concealed, secret.

Definitions from Oxford English Dictionary online.NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English

1853: Villette xviii, C. Bronte "I have never been the depositary of her plans and secrets."

1876 E. Gosse in Academy 9 Dec. 557 “Walking in the arcane world of wonder.”

NCSS Theme 2: Time, Continuity and Change: include experiences that provide for the study of the past and its legacy. NCSS Theme 8: Science, Technology, and Society: include experiences that provide for the study of relationships among science, technology and society.

Finding, Analyzing, managing Patent Searches and constructing a New Patent Model

NCSS: National Council for the Social Studies

Activity Related Curricular standard Knowledge, Processes, Products

Gallery of Gadgetry

• NCTE: “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate texts. . . . They draw upon other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).”•NCSS Theme 3: People, Places, and Environments: Social studies programs include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.

Knowledge: Learners will understand some “characteristics of Industrialization in the late 19th century in the US”Processes: Learners will be able to identify, seek, describe, and evaluate multiple sources and points of view regarding the Patent Office historyProducts: Learners demonstrate understanding by correctly identifying the various depositaries (eg., W.W.) and possible purpose behind the cabinet of curiosities.

“New” Patent Model Assemblage

NCSS Theme 2: Time, Continuity and Change: Social studies programs include experiences that provide for the study of the past and its legacy

Knowledge: Learners will understand characteristics of 19th century patent models and the processes for developing/approving themProcesses: Learners will be able to identify the information needed for acquiring and managing new Patent models and collaborate to develop their own Products: Learners will demonstrate understanding by collaborating and designing a “new patent model

ARG Activity Content Area Standards

NCTE: National Council of Teachers of EnglishNCSS: National Council for the Social StudiesNCTM: National Council of Teachers of Math

Activity Related Curricular standard Knowledge, Processes, Products

Morse Code Decoding

•NCTM: Develop fluency in operations with patterns, and sequencing; generalize patterns using explicitly defined functions

Knowledge: Learners will recognize and understand simple symbolic systems used to encode diplomatic communications of the time period

Processes: Learners will be able to identify symbolic communications systems and their encoding/decoding processes

Products: Learners demonstrate understanding with completed design cards

Design Patent Searches

•NCSS Theme 8: Science, Technology, and Society: Social studies programs include experiences that provide for the study of relationships among science, technology and society

Knowledge: Learners will understand the technology invention, innovation, federal patent process of the time period

Processes: Learners will be able to identify historical events and individuals related to the Patent process in the US

Products: Learners demonstrate understanding with their Decoded messages; completed design patent cards

ARG Activity Content Area Standards

NCTE: National Council of Teachers of EnglishNCSS: National Council for the Social StudiesNCTM: National Council of Teachers of Math

Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry document (Patent Office History)

Standard 1: Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge

Skills 1.1.6: Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format in order to make inferences and gather meaningExample: Study the image of the document, to include its calligraphy, handwriting style, diction. Study the links to resources that are embedded in the blog references. Dispositions in Action 1.2.4: Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of informationExample: Check hyperlinked references from conference blog, use dates on inventory, etc.

Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Skills 2.1.4: Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize informationExample: Organize results and possible solutions by dates, individuals, etc.Dispositions in Action 2.2.1: Demonstrate flexibility in the use of resources by adapting information strategies to each specific resource and seeking additional resources when clear conclusions cannot be drawnExample: Compare & contrast Patent Office documents, conference blog, other related web resources (e.g., “Temple of Invention” history, “Patent Office Pony”)

ARG Activity AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

Design Patent Searches (including morse code sub-activity)

Standard 1: Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge

Skills 1.1.4: Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questionsExample: Search/Evaluate Patent Office cards and information resources; related blog.Dispositions in Action 1.2.5: Demonstrate adaptability by changing the inquiry focus, questions, resources, or strategies when necessary to achieve success.Example: Consider parts of designs and other partial information to resolve a ‘whole’ relevant model

Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Skills 2.1.5: Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problemsExample: Organize results and possible solutions by dates, etcDispositions in Action 2.2.2: Use both divergent and convergent thinking to formulate alternative conclusions and test them against the evidence.Example: Alternate between model/invention parts and whole invention; between individual morse symbols and decoded messages

ARG Activity AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

“New” Patent Model Assemblage

Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Skills 2.1.6: Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.Example: Organize results and possible solutions by dates, etcDispositions in Action 2.2.4: Demonstrate personal productivity by completing products to express learning.Example: A “new” patent model!

Standard 3: Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society

Skills 3.1.2: Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learnersExample: Working in teams to create a “new” modelResponsibilities 3.3.4: Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts.Example: Simulate the patent model creation and curation process.

ARG Activity AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner